Chapter 72: Misunderstanding
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"You took one of my talismans earlier and wasted some of my spiritual ink, you'd better remember to pay me back for that, heh heh!" Wang Bo said with a sly smile.
Upon hearing this, Shi Sheng's eyes widened in anger: "Wang Bo, I helped you treat him and yet you're asking me to pay the fee? What kind of logic is that?"
"What's the logic? I'll ask you one question, who used my talisman paper?" Wang Bo raised the corner of his mouth, stroking his beard with one hand, and said indifferently: "So, you pay for this expense."
Shi Sheng curled his lip: "Out is out, anyway it's not a waste, treating illnesses and saving people is what I learned to do. Learning medicine until now this is the first time I've diagnosed and treated someone, heh heh." Shi Sheng didn't think too much about it, looking like he was still enjoying this feeling of helping others.
Seeing this, Wang Bo nodded secretly in his heart and praised him silently. His face remained expressionless as he said softly, "Heh heh, if you don't use it yourself, it's almost the same as wasting it. You've really been wronged by spending this silver!"
"I'm too lazy to argue with someone as petty as you, it's a waste of my willingness!" Shi Sheng looked at Wang Bo's harmonious smile and felt a chill in his heart, not knowing what trick this old man was going to play next.
"Do you want to learn alchemy?" asked Wang Bo with a smile.
"Not bad, I don't know what requirements there are!" Shi Sheng thought for a moment, at worst he would just be blacklisted once.
"Promise me one condition!" Wang Bo slowly spoke out.
"I'm sure you're aware of my family's situation, so let's not be too harsh with the conditions!" Shi Sheng said cautiously, afraid of being taken advantage of.
Wang Bo did not smile, but instead became serious: "Shi Sheng, I am not joking with you. As I said before, the art of alchemy is not easily passed on to outsiders."
Shi Sheng's mind suddenly turned, feeling that Wang Bo seemed to have some deeper meaning, and asked: "I don't know what you want from me?"
"Don't mention my affairs!" Wang Bo said slowly.
"Does Wang Bo really trust me?" Shi Sheng was somewhat perplexed.
"If you reveal the old man's affairs, this little monster can't even open his spiritual realm and his spiritual power will leave his body. If I say it out loud, it won't do you any good either." Wang Bo said with a smile.
After a long silence, Shi Sheng thought that although he didn't fully understand Wang Bo, it seemed that he didn't have any malicious intentions towards him. Moreover, Wang Bo provided free medical treatment to the poor, so his character couldn't be too bad. However, Shi Sheng dared not agree with Wang Bo's recognition of his own qualifications.
"Is this Wang Bo's condition for exchange?" Shi Sheng furrowed his brow.
"This is just the most basic trust between us, you don't mention my name, I will naturally help you keep the secret. Later on, when I pass on to you the elixir recipes, each one of them requires you to give me ten free finished elixirs, and then I'll teach you the next one." Wang Bo revealed a meaningful smile once again.
"Free labor?" Shi Sheng cursed inwardly, circling around the old fox. It was impossible to teach him for free, and he would have to provide materials for the other party to refine pills. Lower-grade pills were fine, but higher-grade pills might require materials that even he couldn't gather ten of. However, that was a problem for later; for now, he really had no way to get his hands on the pill formula.
"Alright, I'll tell you!" Shi Sheng's expression turned serious as he continued, "I don't know what kind of pill Wang Bo can refine at most, and how did Fu Yi get these pill formulas?"
"Heh heh, back in the day, I obtained a fragment of a recipe book. It records many alchemical formulas. If you behave well, I'll even give this fragment to you. However, I only know a few of them." Wang Bo stroked his beard and smiled.
"Alright, then I'll learn the Jīng Niàn Dān first, and then learn the Xuán Líng Dān!" Shí Shēng said with a serious expression.
"Alright, follow me," said Wang Bo, and he led Shi Sheng to the Dan room. Wang Bo fiddled with the stove for a while, and suddenly the ordinary stove flashed with a ray of light, transforming into a pure blue color. The surrounding area was not only painted with some bird and beast patterns, but also inlaid with four pieces of Xuanjing jade.
"This is a special crucible for refining elixirs, and it's considered a treasure of the same rank as the elixir furnace. Ordinary elixirs can be refined using ordinary flames, but the聚念丹 (Gathering Thought Elixir) and 玄灵丹 (Mystic Spirit Elixir) cannot be refined with ordinary flames."
"Our boundary is not enough, we can't urge out high-ranking flame, can only use this stove, with Xuanjing Jade matching array method to urge the birth of spiritual flame, far surpassing the temperature of small fireball, stability also want to be higher than many, just need to match intention control!" Wang Bo explained, Shi Sheng carefully listened to every step of use, as well as the characteristics of Dan stove.
"Who would have thought that Old Wang had such a treasure!" Shi Sheng nodded secretly, but didn't say it out loud.
Wang Bo handed over an ancient scroll to Shi Sheng, saying: "This is the method for refining the Gathering Mind Pill and the Mysterious Spirit Pill, as well as the materials needed. You can go to the medicine garden to pick the herbs yourself. With your talent, you should be able to successfully refine one or two pills. As for the spiritual medicine used, just compensate me at cost!"
"Right, don't touch the other medicinal herbs!"
Wang Bo finished speaking and left, Shi Sheng didn't say much either, he knew Wang Bo's rules. After opening the medicine garden, he immediately felt a strong fragrance of medicine coming towards him.
Whoosh!
At this moment, a golden light burst out from the sleeve of Shi Sheng's robe and immediately transformed into a small monkey the size of a finger on the ground. It was Jin Ling, who lazily lay down in the medicine garden.
"Huh? If you hadn't shown up, I would have almost forgotten about this little guy! Hehe, don't run around randomly, or else if you get lost, I won't be able to find you!" Shi Sheng handed over the task and began to focus on studying the two types of elixir formulas. Jin Ling, on the other hand, flashed a mischievous grin, revealing a clever expression, which somewhat surprised Shi Sheng, but he didn't think much of it.
Seven or eight days later, Shi Sheng firmly remembered the methods of refining two kinds of elixirs and all spiritual medicines. He immediately picked up the mature medicinal materials and finally frowned.
"Hmph, Wang Bo really thinks highly of me, thinking I can successfully refine these few medicinal materials? Last time, if I hadn't forced the unripe medicinal materials to mature, how could I have refined three Open Mind Dan?" Shi Sheng looked at those unripe medicinal materials and revealed a meaningful smile.
"Anyway, it's good to practice my skills first. If I fail, I can always come back and refine these spiritual medicines later." Shi Sheng said as he took a batch of spiritual medicines to the alchemy room, thought for a moment, and then began to start refining the elixir.
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A month later, Wang Bo had just returned from outside and sat upright on a wooden chair, his eyes slightly narrowed as he pondered something.
"This kid doesn't just have the ability to leave his body, but also knows how to do it. It seems that there are still other secrets on this child's body. Last time he was beaten by bandits and should have died, but he woke up again and said those words that even I couldn't understand, what does it mean!" Wang Bohuo said thoughtfully.
"This young fellow may not be very honest, but he is not a bad person. He comes and goes freely in my medicine garden, but has never stolen anything."
Wasting a talisman paper for a stranger, his nature is still quite kind. Last time, just a few mature medicinal materials, he actually refined two Open Mind Pills, and his talent is not bad." Wang Bo took a sip of clear tea, no longer thinking about this matter.
After a moment's thought, Wang Bo smiled slightly and said excitedly: "I didn't expect to actually get my hands on a 'Molinghua', heh heh, in another month or two, it should be ripe, and then I can refine that Dan medicine."
As soon as the mention of Muling flower, Wang Bo became extremely excited, seemingly very concerned about that spiritual medicine.
Suddenly, he remembered Shi Sheng's previous destruction of the medicine garden. Wang Bo couldn't help but twitch his eye: "No way, I'd rather stay in the medicine garden to keep an eye on things, lest that little rabbit get reckless and ruin that Moleculous Flower!"
As he spoke, Wang Bo hastily arrived at Dan Fang's place and found Shi Sheng standing dazedly in front of the medicine garden gate. A hint of doubt flashed across Wang Bo's eyes as he quickly went to take a look at the medicine garden.
As he looked away, Wang Bo felt a sudden darkness in front of him, his body swayed and almost fell to the ground. He held back the blood that was about to spew out, not to mention that the ink spirit flower had flown away without warning. All the mature spiritual medicines in the medicine garden disappeared, even the immature spiritual medicines only left some ordinary varieties.
"You little scoundrel! I'll fight you to the death!" Wang Bo roared, his beard bristling with rage, and immediately slapped a palm towards Shi Sheng.
"Ah……cough, cough, Wang Bo, stop, it's all a misunderstanding!" Shi Sheng came back to his senses and instinctively used the Ling Kong body technique to hastily escape outside. (End of this chapter, next chapter will be even more exciting!)
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